Notorious outlaw Carl Sutherland recounts life of crime
In Los Angeles a sensational confession by Carl D. Sutherland alias Joseph Palmer alias Jack Ames recounts his outlaw career. He describes early boyhood shift to banditry, crimes from train robberies to depot holds up, a kidnapping plot, and violent escapes. He laments a life of crime, seeks a honest name, and hints at reform before final fate.
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OS Angeles
Red Devi” $Sutherland
Outlaw
Byron
Robert Louis Stevenson
Tie
Carl
America
Los Angeles County
McKinley
Walter Auble
Jesse James
Los Angeles
Far West
Mississippi
Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde
Carl D. Sutherland
Dick Turpin
Auble
Jack Henderson
Westchester Place
Joseph Palmer
Jack Ames
Carl Sherwood
Kentucky
Lamar
Uarton County
Sutherland
Pittsburg
Kan
Joe Palmer
Jack Wells
Ufe
Palmer
Kansas
Palmer Anid
Frank Errington
Oswego
Kaun
Nesho River
Errington
Cherryvale
Denison
Tex
Walter Craig
Craig
Nelie Errington
Vigilance Committee
Nellie Errington
Ife
San Francisco
University Club
Oklahoma
New York
Electrical Power to Haul Trains Over Mountain Divisions
Harriman plans to use water power to generate electricity for mountain divisions of Union Pacific, Southern Pacific, and Shasta routes. Experts reportedly support the move with a projected cost over 40 million dollars and substantial savings. Electricity could double capacity, reducing need for multiple locomotives on steep grades.
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Southern Pacific
Sierras
Shasta
Siskiyou Mountains
Niagara
Harriman
Founding of Corinne Ends in Uncertain Fate for Railroad Era
An elderly California railroad man recalls founding Corinne in 1868 with fellow builders and speculators. He describes rapid growth to 4500 residents, ambitions for irrigation and ore transport, and the collapse after Central Pacific and Union Pacific conflicts left the town bypassed and economically ruined.
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California
Corinne
Union Pacific
Bear River
Ogden
Salt Lake
Bulla
Montana
Central Pacific
Jory
Sidney Dillon
Brigham City
Portable Blacksmith Shop Elevates Railroad Maintenance
The portable blacksmith shop uses two box cars one for sleeping quarters and one as a fully equipped shop. It carries tools and spare parts to repair switches frogs and hand cars on Missouri Pacific tracks. Repairs are done on site with duplicated frogs when traffic is heavy and are quicker reducing delays and shipping costs.
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Way Department
Missouri Pacific Railway
Chapel Car St Anthony Visits Utica on Rail Route
The Catholic Church Extension society train coach St. Anthony stops at Chapel Car Utica. The main chapel seats about 100, features an altar and secured candlesticks, with a library for distribution. Behind are two chaplains quarters, lavatory, secretary office, kitchen and staff of a secretary, two chaplains and a porter.
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Utica
St. Anthony
The
Catholic Church Extension Society
New York Tribune
Smallest Railroad Chartered in Pennsylvania this Year
Gov. Stuart approves Carrick and Baldwin Street Railway Company charter as the smallest line of the year. It will run about 0.35 miles from Carrick in Allegheny County into Baldwin Township with an $6,000 capital and officers F. K. Martin and J. C. Bily among directors.
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Gov. Stuart
Pennsylvania
Carrick & Baldwin Street Railway Company
F. K. Martin
Pittsburgh
J. C. Bily
J. G. Evang
Carrick
Allegheny County
Baldwin Township
State owned railroads and a record steepest line
A British commission reports on state ownership of railways across 41 countries, grouping nations by ownership and leasing practices and noting exceptions like Guatemala. It also spots the Mendel and Vesuvian lines as the steeper rails, with new electrical rope systems. Mr. Morse leads grain men touring the Manitoba line west of Winnipeg, eyeing grain elevator sites as settlers push wheat shipments.
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India
Canada
New South Wales
Queensland
South Australia
Tasmania
Victoria
Western Australia
New Zealand
Cape Colony
Natal
Transvaal
Orange River
Austria-Hungary
Belgium
Brazil
Bulgaria
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Denmark
France
Honduras
Italy
Japan
Norway
Portugal
Rumania
Russia
Servia
Siam
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Newfoundland
Nicaragua
Netherlands
Greece
Luxemburg
Spain
Guatemala
Bozen
Tyrol
Mendel
Virgil Terrace
Eisach
Frank W. Morse
Grand Trunk Pacific
Winnipeg
Ocean Liner Lusitania Clocks Guard Time Onboard
A historic note describes the Lusitania’s nearly 50 clocks managed by a master clock, ensuring synchronized operations aboard the ocean liner.
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Lner
Lusitania
Thi
Fragmented garbled text offers a peek at old era musings
The passage blends random snippets on politics, meat prices, drought, and poetry. It references a congressman candidate pledging bills about chickens, a meat trust price topic, and humorous asides about hats and shepherd lyrics, all in a scattered, antiquated newspaper voice.
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Angel City
Broadway
William McKinley
Canton
Southern
Mrs. Sutherland
Carl P. Sutherland
Faust
Goodley
Thi Kek
Fiji
Meat Trust
Baron Munchausen
Horse
Basket Weavers
Harlan Babcock
Kalamazoo
Raunt
Gray Wolf Gant
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